Video: Mentally ill man can’t stop talking about the monsters under his bed

posted at 4:41 pm on April 11, 2014 by Allahpundit

Really, really unfortunate to find the Free Beacon exploiting an insane derelict for easy page views. It’s one thing to giggle at the crazy man at the bus stop, it’s another to record him and put it on YouTube. Nor is this the first time they’ve had fun at the expense of someone with obvious brain damage. Just look what they did to poor Al Sharpton.

You’ll be tempted to bail here after 10 seconds thinking you’ve got the point and thus there’s no need to watch it all. Wrong: The point is to watch it all, to absorb the extent of this guy’s demagoguery. You know, one of the theories for why Reid’s babbling about the Kochs every day is that it’s a shot across the bow to other Republican billionaires, to warn them of what’ll happen to them if they start throwing money at libertarian/conservative causes like the Kochs do. Does that make … any sense, though? After watching this, I understand it less than ever. Given the egos that populate America’s donor class, I bet there are people who’d kill for the kind of publicity the Kochs are getting from Reid. They’d have to pay more for personal security since blather like this marginally raises the risk that they’ll be targeted by cranks, but that’s a cost they can bear. Meanwhile, donors who don’t want to be in the limelight for whatever reason can take comfort in the fact that Reid’s helped make the Kochs a lightning rod, drawing lefty attention away from lesser fatcats who can now contribute to righty groups without worry. Just doesn’t add up.

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Such was the case with the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002—a piece of legislation introduced by Reid—which dealt with a variety of boundary shifts and land trades in Nevada. Reid assured his colleagues that the bill was a bipartisan measure that would benefit both the natural environment and the economy in Nevada.

“What Reid did not explain,” the Los Angeles Times reported, “was that the bill promised a cavalcade of benefits to real estate developers, corporations and local institutions that were paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to his sons’ and son-in-law’s firms.”

For example, the Howard Hughes Corporation alone paid $300,000 to the small, Washington-based consulting firm of Reid’s son-in-law, Steven Barringer, to promote a provision allowing Hughes to acquire 998 acres of highly valuable federal land situated in the rapidly growing Las Vegas metropolitan area. In federal lobbyist reports, Barringer is listed as one of Hughes’s representatives on the measure that Reid introduced.

Other provisions of the 2002 bill were intended to benefit (to the tune of several million dollars) a real-estate development headed by Harvey Whittemore, a senior partner in the Nevada law firm that employed all four of Reid’s sons. Specifically, Reid intervened to gain monumental government concessions on behalf of Whittemore, who wished to build thousands of homes and numerous golf courses on 43,000 acres of barren land in an area called Coyote Springs, an hour northeast of Las Vegas.

This land had a number of federal restrictions on its use: Most notably, one-fourth of it was off-limits to developers because of federal protections for an “endangered” species of desert tortoise that dwelt there; another one-fourth (about 10,500 acres) was government-owned and was subject to a federal power-line right of way; and the Coyote Springs territory as a whole was rife with streams and washes that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had designated as crucial to the health of the desert’s ecosystem, and was therefore generally off-limits to construction.

Thanks to Senator Reid’s intercession, however, the Bureau of Land Management agreed to relocate the “endangered” tortoises to an adjacent federal preserve, thereby opening that portion of Coyote Springs to developers.

So that all of those, who still think – erroneously – that the government acted correctly in Ruby Ridge and Waco, both of which were later cited as part of the reason Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Building, wrap your heads around this little tidbit:

Remember how Dingy Harry got the ‘endangered’ desert tortoise removed from the land for his ‘very, very, very, very, very rich’, powerful and influential friend and donor?

Guess what the Feds are using as the justification to remove the ranchers from state land that the BLM claims jurisdiction over?

The very same ‘endangered’ desert tortoise that Dingy Harry had moved from Whittemore’s land to this area!

America has 50 million people on food stamps and close to 100 million adults of working age out of the labour force. We are also watching meat prices soar. So, what is the Federal government doing?

It is seizing the Bundy cattle and killing them to protect this ‘endangered’ desert tortoise that is, evidently, so populous that the BLM cannot contain them within the ‘resort’ it built for them.

And, here, at last, is the mind-warp:

While the Federal government is killing badly-needed cattle that is owned by a private citizen, allegedly, to protect an ‘endangered’ desert tortoise, it is also currently euthanising thousands of those same tortoises.

Kill privately-owned cattle to protect a tortoise that it is killing by the thousands. Smart power!

Amerika, the ugly!

200 agents, many of whom are snipers, helicopters, military vehicles, ‘First Amendment zones,’ and the assault and battery of several law-abiding Americans already.

Apart from civil liberties and property rights, how much is this costing taxpayers?

Riddle me this, ‘torture’ hysterics:

Would you consider it to be ‘torture’ for the Federal government to taser innocent Americans, who are exercising their Constitutional rights?

Given the egos that populate America’s donor class, I bet there are people who’d kill for the kind of publicity the Kochs are getting from Reid.

No doubt. I’m sure there are many who currently donate generously to National Panhandler Radio or to the Panhandler Broadcasting System are re-thinking if they are getting the liberal bang for the buck they thought.

He is quite possibly, the most disgraceful US Senate Majority leader in the last 100 years….

BUT, part of the reason I believe that he has gone completely
Stone Cold Sanitarium Nuts, is that Republicans could’ve
hammered him long ago….of course they did not.
They let this man smear Mitt Romney in 2012 with an accusation
so obscene that anyone in their right mind would’ve relentlessly
pushed back…NOT the Romney Campaign….Gee, and we post
here about how frustrated we are with the Republican Party.

The only guy I’ve heard really let him have it was Tom Coburn..

but he is retiring due to health reasons….which is why he
nailed him…and Yes, Ted Cruz is taking it to him…

“[Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert,” he wrote. “Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada.”

“His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.”

Wow, I knew he had Koch derangement syndrome almost as bad as Pelosi with the Bush attacks, but wow, those are just since February! The thing is, not only should he not be attacking American citizens like this, he shouldn’t be doing it on the floor of the Senate. Yet, who will stop him?

If the goal is to create further discord, to perpetuate even greater divisiveness that exacerbates civil unrest and brings on full civil war, than it makes perfect sense.

One nut with a weapon takes out someone that the other side claims as evil, or un-American. That side becomes enraged, the anger palpable and a nut from that side takes out someone on the other side. Now real unrest breaks out. Even people that had previously stressed the need for working it through “the system”, now say it’s impossible. It’s too far gone.
Words turn into actions and actions become violent. Martial law is declared in order to protect the “union”, and elections are suspended for two years. They never happen again as the parties in power entrench themselves more during this time, only to enrich and empower themselves even more. The people rise up. All hell breaks loose.
The outcome is yet to be determined. Left, right, middle, or just simply no more. Gone.

Hey, but what do I know. This could just be the mutterings of this crazy old man.

I just love it when Hairy emphasizes a point by touching his index fingers to his thumbs, and extends the other three fingers. Reminds me of Chef Boy-R-Dee. Hairy looks like he has an affectation, which is common among those with mental illness.

I was watching some of the video from one of the confrontations yesterday. I could see that getting out of hand *very* quickly, and wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t the spark that sets off a *major* upheaval.

I was watching some of the video from one of the confrontations yesterday. I could see that getting out of hand *very* quickly, and wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t the spark that sets off a *major* upheaval.

Midas on April 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM

Yeppers. There are multiple reports coming out that the Feds have cut the cell towers. The Bundys have asked for help from HAM operators.

I was watching some of the video from one of the confrontations yesterday. I could see that getting out of hand *very* quickly, and wouldn’t be surprised if it isn’t the spark that sets off a *major* upheaval.

Midas on April 11, 2014 at 7:29 PM

Yeppers. There are multiple reports coming out that the Feds have cut the cell towers. The Bundys have asked for help from HAM operators.

We are experiencing slow internet and bad cell service, we do not believe the government is shutting us down via cellular towers etc, Once again no proof that they are or aren’t, lots of Rumors saying they are. But we have no evidence, could be other issues as we have lots of people being here. They might be tapping in etc, We don’t know. Still trying to get our hands on a Satellite phone for worse case scenario! Thank you for your support, Stay posted for updates!”

However, having posted the above, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see this become another Ruby Ridge/Waco type incident. And it’s absolutely disgusting to read about the ties that the stark raving lunatic Harry Reid has to this situation.

Mentally Ill Man allows the BLM to bully a Clark County Nevada rancher for his cattle trespassing on government land to graze but allows 11 million illegal aliens to trespass on government land with impunity and provides them with benefits.